The peony frenzy has begun and in a little over a week we have harvested our entire crop of coral charm, red charm and Scarlet O'Hara. You may ask how this can be and the sad news is that the long night of below freezing temperatures damaged much of our peony crop--so enjoy them while we have them. Unfortunately our peony availability will be very limited...sad, sad face.

On a brighter note, the cool temperatures have been very good for many of the other spring blooming perennials like baptisia, delphinium, filipendula, lupine and clematis. We will have a gorgeous crop of clematis in every shape, size and variety starting this week with recta and integrifolia. Both varieties are very tall (cool wet spring) and vigorous.

We are sending out the last of the spring woody blooms--lilac in white and viburnum snowball and lace cap.

The sweetpeas are just now producing so we have limited amounts and we are sending out the last of the first crop of snap dragons, Chantilly coral and purple.

Crazy busy week at Bindweed and you know that! You are crazy busy with big functions and huge orders, thank you very much. So instead of getting the blog up and out on time I am running around cutting like mad and putting orders together. And might I say they are amazing. I know that your events will be show stoppers especially when I am absolutely drooling just putting flowers in buckets. Even though this entry is a week late I am posting it now for future reference. So when you are planning events next year during the third week in June you will have a better idea of what might be available. Again, thank you for letting us be a part of this incredible adventure.

We are deep into peony harvest, it has come on so suddenly this year. First a trickle, just a few stems a day and now RT is out checking and cutting every four hours. The beauty above is one of the first peonies we planted here, "Jules Elie", and she is still one of my favorites. Pink perfection with an incredible scent. (My favorite ponies are the most fragrant ones--I like the color of the coral peonies but they do NOT smell like peonies.) We have hundreds of peony plants and they are all producing so just pick your favorite. We have the major colors pictured below: Coral Charm, Red Charm, Scarlet O'Hara, Jules Elie, Bowl of Cream and Festiva Maxima.

Bindweed is on the cusp of perennial time--that moment when all the perennial plants explode--so there will inevitably be some cool surprises on the truck. The delphinium are really producing and we have them in a white-sky blue-colbalt-violet-lavender rainbow. The baptisia are also in season. AKA False Indigo, we have three fabulous varieties all pictured below. Baptisia is an excellent cut flower, colorful with long stems and a good vase life, just pick your favorite colors: Blue, smoky purple and our new maroon favorite, Cherries Jubilee. The first of the campanula are blooming and we have white and blue bellflower. The early blooming lupine are peaking and we have a ton of blue violet and if you are lucky there are some yellow and a few bunches of pink. The entire clematis family is coming into bloom, we are harvesting clematis on the vine, clematis integrifolia and clematis recta. Yeah! New this week also are Huchera Coral Bells, if you are looking for a punch of color these babies are the real deal. Like dynamite, they are tiny but have a huge impact. (Kind of like my granddaughter. LOL) OMG, the list goes on...the Eremerus, Scabiosa and filipendula are just starting but we will have some in limited quantities. And last but not least, a new foliage this week, Lady's Mantle, it has been perfect weather for it and it is sumptuous. We are nearing the end of the viburnum Lace Cap, so get it while you can. The first planting of sweet peas is still producing and we are keeping an eye on the second crop. Until then we have white, pink, lavender and red sweet peas by the stem and on the vine.

For full availability please call or check your email or fax and feel free to call us/text/email your order anytime.

The final shipment of seedlings have arrived and are in the ground, we have had two days without a downpour, the peonies are pouring in and everyday we are harvesting new varieties. We have been working double-time playing catch-up, trying to recover time lost due to wet weather and I am wrecked. TGIT--thank goodness it's Thursday! (Thursdays are our Fridays.)

I'm not even going to attempt charming chit chat or descriptions this week, just look at the pretty pictures and check out the availability list. Please call, email or text with any questions or to place an order. ;)

It has not rained for almost twenty-four hours and it is beginning to feel more like Idaho. Everything has been on hold for two weeks, just waiting for some heat and some sunlight...and now everything is exploding. There is color in every row--peonies in white, pink, coral and deep raspberry red, sweet peas in white, pink, fuchsia, lavender and wine, airy puff balls of white allium, blue and purple spikes of baptisia, soft lavender wands of catmint, tiny bells in white, pink and blue clematis, long spears of snapdragon in white, yellow, pink, coral and several shades of burgundy to raspberry. The viburnum towers over head like lacy circlets of melting snow and the soft green-grey shades of dusty miller carpet the ground. Everything else is green and growing, even the weeds!

Each day new varieties are coming into bloom so there will be lots of new things on the truck. Please call, email or text for the latest availability or to make an order.

Delivering this week was like driving through the Connemara Hills in western Ireland--low clouds cutting the horizon in half, scarves of mist rising up ridges, slate colored skies and green, green, green. Wow--what a trip! Needless to say the farm is loving it, everything is thriving--even the weeds.

We say farewell to the lilacs, the last to bloom are the white and that is all we have this week. We greet the viburnum, both lace cap and snowball, with open arms and say hello to clematis. We have clematis recta, long sturdy stems crowned with tear-drop buds and star-shaped blooms, and clematis integrifolia, shorter stems, vigorous foliage tipped with bell-shaped flowers. These clematis varieties are dainty and long-lived.

The white allium is beautiful this year, every other year it is damaged by late frosts but this year it is perfect.Baptisia, back-door cousin to lupine, is just coming into bloom in deep blue violet and royal purple. We have a small crop of Bells of Ireland and have started cutting dusty miller. The greenhouses are full to bursting with sweet peas and snap dragons--we have a rainbow of colors of both. We are really excited by a new variety of snap called "Purple Twist"--not very purple, more a deep raspberry with white streaks--very striking.

Please call, email or text for the latest availability or to place an order.

My apologies for not posting last week...it was massive as you all know. And well, sometimes you just need to stop and smell the roses...or in my case, stop and be with grandchildren.But the farm waits for no one, there are flowers EVERYWHERE and we have a full list with some new goodies. We have zinnias in a rainbow of colors, dahlias TDF, ornamental oregano, lisianthus, atriplex and new crops of asclepias (which will be shorter because it is establishing itself), Black Eyed Susans, delphinium and snaps. The sweet peas continue to amaze, although we are dropping some colors as they are beginning to suffer in the heat. So please take a look and let us know what we can get for you.

Everything on this farm is just gorgeous right now. The availability list has overflowed onto two pages, just barely, and the cooler is full! The roses are at their July peak and the sunflowers, yep, SUNFLOWERS are blooming.Bindweed roses are a mix of David Austin roses in shades from ivory, champagne, light apricot to peach. We have several different varieties in bloom just now. The "Darwin" rose is my favorite--heavenly rose fragrance, blooms vary from ivory to apricot. TDF

David Austin garden roses

I am absolutely ga-ga over the cloud larkspur--we have monster bunches in blue violet, lavender and white. The lavender just kills me. This shade is so slightly lavender it shimmers and would be stunning with sterling and mercury glass.

Cloud larkspur lavender

Lavender sweet peas

I am also thrilled with our new lavender and wine sweet peas. The third crop of sweet peas is just coming on now and we have two shades of lavender--one very pale lavender and the other is a deeper, bluer shade of lavender. And then we have a deep wine purple sweet pea and a new pink, soft with a white heart.

Please consult your email and fax for full and current availability and have a beautiful week.

Peonies are the big story this week. They just started to bloom ten days ago and the coral and magenta peonies are already gone--cut, sold, delivered! Holy cow. The good news is we have an abundance of gorgeous pinks, from palest blush to deep pink and the most beautiful whites ever.

The truck are full, full, full--so full we needed two trucks in Jackson. The perennials continue strong and some of the annuals are beginning to bloom as well. Lots of exciting new blooms to work with. The delphinium this year are so beautiful, big fat stems loaded with blossoms--and the colors so rich they make me swoon. I have everything photographed below in alphabetical order. Just run your cursor over the image if you are not sure what it is and a caption will appear. Also, check your fax and email availability for prices and quantities and get your orders in early. Ha un buon weekend--have a good weekend!

Purple is my favorite color--what more can I say. It delights and tickles my senses--it blows my mind.So if you saw the truck this week you know that Bindweed is in full production--we have annuals, perennials and woodies. There is something new coming into bloom EVERY day--so exciting. We have updated the availability list three times this week and there will be new varieties before deliveries this week. I will try to keep the newest blooms near the front of the truck so you can find them!